>> On 2/2/2006 12:10 PM, Hongwei Li wrote: >> >> [snip] >> >>> >>> The * is a wild char because there are probably other letters after office, >>> e.g. . ] or space etc. I also tried: >>> >>> :0: >>> * ^Subject:.*is out of the office* >>> $MAILDIR/Trash >> >> * is not a wild card character. >> >> dot is a wild card character. >> >> When dot is followed by splat (.*) that means "zero or more anything" >> >> So, the above says match on "subject:' starting in column 1 >> followed by any number of characters (zero or more) >> followed by "is out of the office*" >> >> I'm not certain what that last asterisk does.... >> did you try: >> * ^subject:.*is out of the office.* >> >> note the ".*" at the end, and not just "*" >> >> Don >> > > Why does this work when the subject line has many other chars after FAILURE: > > # block junk mails from msnotes: > :0: > * ^Subject:.*DELIVERY FAILURE* > $MAILDIR/Junk > > The real subject is something like: > DELIVERY FAILURE: 550 5.7.1 Message content rejected... > > I didn't use .*, but only * above. > > Hongwei > A strange thing: when I test, I clicked the "reply" or "Forward" for the junk email I received earlier, so the new subject line has either Re: or [Fwd:, i.e. the whole subject line is like: [Fwd: Aaa Bbbb/Cccc Dddd/Xxx Yyyy is out of.... or Re: Aaa Bbbb/Cccc Dddd/Xxx Yyyy is out of.... Then, my procmailrc does not work for that mail. If I remove Re: and [Fwd: from the subject line, but keep all others there: Aaa Bbbb/Cccc Dddd/Xxx Yyyy is out of.... and send it to myself or other testing account, then it works -- using .* or * at the end of that line in my procmailrc code! So, the Re: and [Fwd: in the subject line makes the code in procmailrc not working. Why? Thanks! Hongwei
